Painkiller (TV Mini Series)
Jesus Gave Me Water (2023)
Uzo Aduba: Edie Flowers
Quotes
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Edie Flowers : [Are] You a madam-fucking over the world for some Louis bags and a Porsche?
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Edie Flowers : And I'm thinking, at some point in that Purdue marketing meeting, someone said, You know what we need to help us sell our Schedule 2 narcotic? We need a big, furry, squishy, fluffy, cuddly, stuffed OxyContin pill. And so they designed a toy, had it manufactured and shipped all the way from China to Virginia, a drug rep drove it all they over to Carroll County, put it in the hands of a pharmacist who was about to get jumped by a junkie, and so that means the junkie knows about OxyContin. The pharmacist knows about OxyContin. The doctor knows about OxyContin. Hell, even the people in China who made the toy know about OxyContin, but I didn't know shit. It came in under the radar somehow, and that was the brilliance of the idea and why it spread so quickly.
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Edie Flowers : You would hope that an application is reviewed by a panel of experts poring over every detail - shit don't work that way. What most people don't understand about the FDA is that they're a small government agency that, more often than not, takes a company's word for it. When a new product comes through, they don't test anything themselves. They review what they're given. For drugs, this process usually comes down to just one person. And for OxyContin, his name was Curtis Wright.
